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Lucent Shares Fall, Dragging Down Rivals: After-Hours Trading
By William Selway
New York, Oct. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Lucent Technologies Inc. dropped in extended trading after the world's No. 1 maker of phone equipment said fiscal fourth-quarter earnings fell, sending shares of rival telecommunications part-makers lower.
Shares of the Murray Hill, New Jersey company fell 7.13, or 23 percent, to 24.25 in trading after the 4 p.m. close of the New York Stock Exchange. This is the second-largest one-day drop in Lucent's stock price since the shares were first sold to the public in April 1996.
Lucent said profit in the quarter that ended Sept. 30 was 17 cents to 18 cents a share, not including costs for acquisitions, compared with 24 cents a year earlier. The shortfall suggests that Lucent continues to lose corporate sales to competitors such as Cisco Systems Inc., said Christian Koch, who helps oversee $50 billion for Trusco Capital Management in Atlanta.
``Lucent's earnings warning comes as no surprise to us,'' said Koch, who no
longer owns Lucent shares. ``For the last two or three quarters Cisco was
basically eating Lucent's lunch.''
The announcement from Lucent still sent shares of rival
telecommunications-equipment makers lower. Cisco Systems, the largest maker
of computer networking equipment, fell 1.33 to 49.92. About 3.15 million shares of Cisco changed hand, making it the second most active stock in after-hours trading.
Nortel Networks Corp., the second-largest maker of telecommunications
equipment behind Lucent, fell 3.50 to 60. JDS Uniphase Corp., which competes
with Lucent in the market for fiber- optic equipment, fell 4.61 to 86.02.
Vitesse Semiconductor Corp., a maker of chips that speed traffic on
telecommunications networks, fell 8.64 to 69.98.
Futures on the Standard & Poor's 500 Index fell 0.80 to 1390.20 in overnight
trading, indicating the index open 0.8 percent lower when trading resumes.